Professor Jim Best will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton from 2014 - 2017.
Visiting Fellow and Host
Fellow: Professor Jim Best, Department of Geology, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Professor Stephen Darby, Geography & the Environment
Aims of the collaboration
To build on collaboration between research groups at Southampton and Illinois in particular:
- to increase research into the morphological and sedimentological dynamics of monsoon-affected rivers.
- to develop the application of Parametric Echo-Sounding (PES) imaging techniques to studies of sequence stratigraphy in Cambodia
- to carry out studies of channel migration on major rivers such as the Mekong.
Fellowship activities in 2014
Joint fieldwork in Cambodia, October - November 2014
Fellowship activities in 2015
First Fellowship visit to Southampton, January 2015; joint project meeting to discuss fieldwork results
Further collaborative fieldwork in Cambodia.
Second visit to Southampton, May - June 2015: Public lecture: Big Rivers: Dilemmas of the Past, Present and Future